Despite clearly being destroyed upon crashing into the Death Star at the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi, the Executor is shown virtually fully intact after having crash-landed on the Forest Moon of Endor in the comic A Day in the Life from Star Wars Tales 12.[147] All sources dealing with the subject of the Executor's fate describe the ship as having been fully obliterated, including the novel Heir to the Empire, which claims the Executor "[disintegrated] completely in the battle station's massive explosion."[152] The Star Wars Tales run included several stories that were intended to be Infinities, or outside of the realm of Star Wars canon, and this tale of the Executor would naturally seem to be among them. However, the intact Executor of A Day in the Life is referenced in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, which serves to validate its canonical, if extremely contradictory, status.[213]